Use command dmidecode on Linux servers to get the hardware serial number which is required for logging the case to the hardware support team. # /usr/sbin/dmidecode -t 1 # dmidecode 2.12 SMBIOS 2.8 present. Handle 0x0100, DMI type 1, 27 bytes System Information Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: PowerEdge …

If you have installed the HPE Data Protector (DP) Cell Manager (CM) as well as the client on a Windows Server 2008 machine. After making some configuration changes you need to restart the DP services on the Cell Manager (CM). You can use the below methods to …

Problem: I have some HP-UX 11.31 servers and generally, I connect with these servers through SSH. I noticed that response of one sever becomes very slow during login. When I connect to this server through SSH (with any user normal or root) it takes too much …

Root SSH login on the servers should be disabled to protect the servers from unauthorized access. Root login should be enabled through the console only. If you need root user access to run a script or execute a command then you need to login first through …

Problem: One day I found that one HPE ProLiant DL560 Gen8 server is not accessible from the remote site. When I came onsite then found that the server showing the amber light and error: NT1/NM I (motherboard nonmaskable interrupt), undiagnosed with a pink screen as shown in the below image. VMware vSphere …

When we need extra disks or storage on the servers then we can add the physical disks to the server or we can add the disks from our SAN storage systems like 3PAR, MSA etc. To add a disk to a server first we have to …

Problem: We have a server in which some Virtual Machines (VM) are running on VMware ESXi 5.5. In these Virtual Machines, we have RHEL 5.8, RHEL 6.8, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008 R2. One day suddenly server (DL560 Gen8) reached a hanged state due …